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Poll Finds Overwhelming Support for Solar Power in Pennsylvania
A Bipartisan Majority of Pennsylvanians Favor Solar Power Over Other Sources A new poll from Embold Research found that solar energy has strong support across political, racial, gender, and regional lines. Here are the highlights: 81% of survey respondents indicated...
Climate Action in the Centre Region – 2022
Climate Action Planning in Centre County The first update to share is that the Centre Region Climate Action & Adaptation Plan encompasses the Borough of State College and Townships of College, Ferguson, Halfmoon, Harris, and Patton and was adopted in November...
Solar Panel Guide: Made in the USA
Which Solar Panels are Made in the USA? Here’s a table that summarizes some of the American-made panels on the market. Here at Envinity, our Centre County Solar Cooperative uses Silifab solar SIL Mono solar panels made in Bellingham, WA. Other Panel options with...
PPL Solar Rebate – Making Solar Even More Affordable
New PPL Solar Rebate Business Incentives Are Here While the Federal Tax credit and depreciation value have driven the financial viability of commercial solar projects for 10 years +, PPL has just released a new business incentive to increase the benefits of solar. If...
Agricultural Solar and Solar Ecology in 2021
What is Solar Ecology? Put simply, it is the systemic linkage of humans and other life founded upon the favorable solar energy abundance on Earth. Recent world population projections show we are expected to surpass 11 billion people by the end of the century. With...
Pennsylvania Electric Utilities See Jump in Prices
What you need to know: Energy prices will increase between 2 percent and 30 percent for the summer months, in Pennsylvania Electric Utilities depending on the service territory. Penelec customers, for example, will see an increase of 30 percent, from 4.981 to 6.462...
WPPSEF Awards Grant to PennTAP for Alternative Energy Technology Education Project
WPPSEF Awards Grant to PennTAP for Alternative Energy Technology Education Project WPPSEF has awarded a grant to Penn State University’s Pennsylvania Technical Assistance Program (PennTAP), amounting in $25,000, to enable a workforce and education development project...
Centre Sustains: A Community Survey on Climate Action
Local Governing Bodies Across Pennsylvania Focusing on Climate Action According to local officials within the Centre Region Council of Governments (COG) in a statement today in the Central Daily Times that costs to local municipalities related to climate change are...
Solar 2021 Updates: 26% Federal Tax Credit Extended Until 2023
Remember Good News? First off, for those that did not join us for our first Virtual Solar Tour on 1/7, we wanted to repeat that tucked into the massive Covid relief package passed by Congress (and finally signed by the President) is a provision that extends the solar...
DESIGN + BUILD NEWS
What’s new with sustainable building at Envinity, in Centre County, and beyond.
Solar Panel Guide: Made in the USA
Which Solar Panels are Made in the USA? Here’s a table that summarizes some of the American-made panels on the market. Here at Envinity, our Centre County Solar Cooperative uses Silifab solar SIL Mono solar panels made in Bellingham, WA. Other Panel options with...
WPPSEF Awards Grant to PennTAP for Alternative Energy Technology Education Project
WPPSEF Awards Grant to PennTAP for Alternative Energy Technology Education Project WPPSEF has awarded a grant to Penn State University’s Pennsylvania Technical Assistance Program (PennTAP), amounting in $25,000, to enable a workforce and education development project...
The Wilds in Kane, PA Will Be Renovated to Passive House Standards
Envinity has teamed up once again with the WPPSEF (West Penn Power Sustainable Energy Fund) for a breakthrough Passive House project. STATE COLLEGE, PA, (July 1,2020)– The West Penn Power Sustainable Energy Fund is working with Envinity, Inc. of State College and...
Envinity Receives $50,000 Energy Audit Grant
Envinity Receives $50,000 Energy Audit Grant from the Penelec Sustainable Energy Fund of the Community Foundation for the Alleghenies STATE COLLEGE, PA, (June 10,2020)- The Penelec Sustainable Energy Fund of the Community Foundation for the Alleghenies (hereafter...
Envinity’s Response to COVID-19
Like all of you, we at Envinity are adjusting to this rapidly developing global crisis. We urge that each of us act toward one another with care and compassion and do our part in preventing the spread of COVID-19. To us at Envinity, that means doubling down on our...
Solar Projects on the Rise in Centre County, PA
Organic Climbing was quoted recently about their decision to go solar... According to StateCollege.com, Josh Helke, Organic Climbing’s founder, says people stop by his light-filled, open-concept factory space each week to ask about the solar panels. The company’s...
The Rural Energy For America Program (REAP)
The Rural Energy For America Program or "REAP" has been around since 2008 and has provided hundreds of millions of dollars in grants and loan guarantees to fund thousands of renewable energy projects across the country. Farmers and ranchers and rural small businesses...
Veteran’s Day 2019: Honoring our Military
Happy Veterans Week! We'd like to take this time to honor and recognize the invaluable contributions of millions of Americans who have dedicated their lives to protect our country. We also wanted to celebrate some Envinity team members who served and now have chosen...
US Green Building Council Central PA Green Building of the Year
For the second year in a row, Envinity is being recognized by the US Green Building Council Central PA. In 2018, we were acknowledged for Residential Innovative Project of the Year for our work at GreenBuild. This year, we are taking home the big kahuna - Green...
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